Motivational Quotes

Courage

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

- Gilder, Richard Watson

Best Quotes about Courage

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

22.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

26.

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

30.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

40.

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

46.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

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